The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1932, Page 1

‘4 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! me Rfaumist Party U.S.A. ( Section of the Communist fe U Collect Money, Scrape Up Every Penny to Save “Daily” Entered an aecond-cl at New York, N. ¥. "Vol. IX, No.17 a» matte! the Post Office NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932, der the act of March 3, 1879 Honor Lenin at Memorial Meet Maiiaiin. tens Coliseum err ” Price 3 Cents _ C4 WEBER, DUNCAN ESCAPE DEATH; FLOGGED BY GUN THUGS $ Slogans for the Scottsboro Campaign The following slogans should serve as a guide for the Scottsboro |campaign: The slogans should not be raised all at the same time. The /emphas's in their popularization should be in accord with the local |conditiors in which connection they should be further concretized. At |the same time the raising cf slogans on the specific Scottsboro case |should be broadened out and linked up with other partial demands of the Negro meo-ses as well as with the general fundamental demands of |our Negro program—equal rights, right of self-determination, confisca- tion of tc land of the big white capitalist and landlords in the Black it of the Negro toilers, withdrawal of the armed forces Belt for the ber of A:serican imperialism from the Negro territories of the South. | 1, Immcdiate, unccnditional release of the nine innocent Negro boys | framed up at Scottsboro. 2. Immeciete, unconditional release of all victims of white ruling cless terror—Crphan Jones and George Davis in Maryland, Willie Peter- ssn in Birmingham, John Moore in North Carolina, the strike leaders Negro and white coal miners of Harlan, Mooney and Imperial Valley’ prisoners! 3. White and Negro workers! Organize mass defense to smash the ing lynch ettec: again:t Negroes! 4. White and Negro workers, poor farmers! Stop the disarming of the Ncere-- in the South! Defend the right of Negroes and white toilers to “keep end bear” arms as the only effective means of self- desen: against lynching! White and Negro share-vroppers, poor farm- | ers, un've against your common enemy, the bankers and landlords; | 5. White workers! Into the front ranks for the defense of the Nez.o messes! Defend th your lives the Negro toilers against the lyach b2nditsof the besses! ; Negro and white workers! tos fight Employed and unemployed! Unite geinst the hunger, wage-cutting, war offensive of the bosses upon the working people and its most vicious form of lynching! 7. The bosses’ courts are the lynchers’ tools! Down with capitalist lyneh jucti Smash Jim Crow laws and practices! 8. Death to the lynciers! 9. The Negro misleaders are the chief prop of the boss class lynch- Negro workers! Unmask the “Uncle Tom” betrayers of the Negro Down with the N.A.A.C.P. leaders, the assistant hangmen of 2 Smash the alliance of the Pickens’, Du Bois’, Whites’, with tine white © ruling cless for the legai lynching of the Scottsboro boys! As part of its general hunger, lynching and war program the -Wall Street government is carrying on a vicious repression of the foreign-born workers, United fighting front of Negro and white, navive and foreign-born workers, against starvation and terror! Unite the siruggic against lynching with the fight against the persecution of the foreign-born, 10. White and Negro youth! Boys and girls! The Scottsboro boys must not die! Mobilize the young workers everywhere for the struggle against lynching! 11. Ex-servicemen! Take up the struggle against lynching! Fight for the immediate and unconditional release of Willie Peterson, disabled Negro war veteran, framed-up in Birmingham! 12. ‘The Soviet Union is the only country where racial and national oppression have been completely abolished! Negro and white toilers! Rally to the defense of the Soviet Union, the fatherland of all oppressed. peoples and classes! Defeat the war schemes of the Hoover starvation, lynch govrnment against the first workers’ republic! Defend the heroic srtuggles of the Chinese toilers for national liberation against the im- perialists led by Wall Street! 13. Build the International Labor Defense, the defense organization of all toilers! 14. Build the Liberator into a fighting mass organ, a spearhead in the struggle against lynching and Jim Crow! Build the League of | struggle for Negro Rights into a powerful organization of Negro and | white workers around the Liberator! 15. Join the Communist Party, the organizer and leader of the | struggle for Negro rights! White Guards Tuld to Prepare for An Early Attack on Soviet Union Confident of an early attack on the Soviet Union, the Paris headquarters of the Russian White Guards has ordered a world-wide mobilization of former Czarist officers and other White Guard butchers. The order for the mobilization is ad- mittedly based on “secret information from the Far East.” te Guards “toy ___________—______ hs meee he ee moment for) axainst workers’ Russia by this which they have been longing and] SPring. These dispatches have Hoove’ praying for 14 years may arrive al- mest any day.” The White Guards are instructed to be ready to throw “Their weight into the balance on the side of any country which even- tually opens hostilities with the So- viet Union.” Imperialist press dispatches within the past few weeks have carried open admissions of imper- ialist plans for an armed attack made no bones about the fact that the Japanese imperialists are ex- pected to act as the spear-head in the attack. Admissions have been made that it is precisely on the basis of this role assigned to the Japanese that the Japanese seizure of Manchuria has been supported and legalized by the ‘AFL, LEGION HATCH FAKE “Father” Cox Asks the Unemployed to Elect Him President Scheme to Real Fight for In- surance NEW February 4th demon- strations for unem- ployment insurance have already opened up. The American Legion, the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the Association of the National Advertisers, fearing the great masses of workers who are planning to join the struggle on February 4th for imediate unemployment relief and unemployment insurance are banding to attempt to win these workers away from the fight. Taking up the old promise of Hoover, this new bunch of fascists say they are making a drive for 1,009,000 jobs. Why do they suddenly think up this bright idea? Hoover and Green have bee npromising jobs for nearly two years and the number grows less all the time. This new piece of fakery is an effort to thwart the February 4th demonstrations and prevent the workers from conducting a fight for unemployment insurance. In Pittsburgh, Father Cox, the catholic strikebreaking priest be- comes active in another line. He tells the workers to elect him as president and all their troubles will be solved. In other words, he wants the unemployed to starve until November, then vote for a fat priest, and afterwards expect to be fed. Father Cox says he too is interested in “getting jobs” for the unemployed, All of these fakers know that the United States Department of Labor has just reported thtat jobs are be- coming scarcer all the time. Instead of their being any possibility of jobs, the workers now employed are being laid off by the hundreds of thous- ands. The U. S. Department of La- bor reported that at the end of De- cember, 1931, there were over 10 per cent less workers employed than at the end of 1930. In January, 1932, over 300,000 workers lost their jobs. How does the Legion propose to get jobs’ They urge the Hoover stagger plan, which has already stag- gered the steel workers to the star- vation level, They ask for jobs by urging the bosses to cut down wages, to speed up, to smash the standard of living of all th: workers. The February 4th demonstrations will be an effective answer to the new hunger policies of all the big cities and the Hoover government. They will expose the emptiness of the Legion and A. F. of L. promises of jobs. They will knit the workers in a mighty effort to force unem- ployment insurance and immediate relief. Rally behind National Unemploy- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ment Insurance Day, February 4th! ‘JOB’ SCHEME Prevent He Must Be Fought! YORK. — The, attacks against the} Appeal to the American Workers for Effective Mass Save the Scottsboro Boy Action to The Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A., calls to the attention of the toiling American masses the hearing that will take place on January 21st in the Supreme Court of Alabama on the appeal against the lynch sentence against the eight Scotts- boro young Negro workers. ‘This hearing is an appeal against the electric chair verdict given the innocent boys who had started out to look for work. It is made in surroundings where dastardly lynch murders are considered hon- orable pastime It is made in courts whose main function is to administer law made specifi yas a means of persecuting the Negroes. It is made to judges whose hatred and contempt against Negroes is imbued as part of their capitalist patriotism. Under such conditions it is clear that the hope for the nine Scottsboro victims of American lynch democracy, does not lie in the chambers of the Su- preme Court of Alabama. It lies with the masses of American workers, who in vigorous protests and demonstrations will show their determination to end lynch law and to stop Negro persecution. It lies with those masses who show a readiness to tell the courts of Alabama with unmistakable language that they have made the defense of the nine Scottsboro victims their major and unshakable duty. This attempt of the Southern landlords and capi- talists and their courts to carry through their legal lynching is a symbol of the uninterrupted and savage persecution of the Negro masses, who in the South are denied every elemental democratic right and are generally slandered, insulted, segregated, lynched, and placed upon the lowest level in the category of human society. American lynch capitalism is persecuting, jailing, and deporting workers throughout the country on the accusation that they are Reds and all opposed to the American constitution. But at the same time, they are daily puncturing the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments of this Constitution with the bullets of lynch mobs, with the fire of legal lynchings, and with the outrages of Jim Crow laws against the Negroes. There has been entirely too little organized protest against this hideous framie-up. There has been a lack of organization effort which could have gathered up the mass sentiment for these victims and could have transformed it through organization into a powerful organized mass action, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has so long collected funds under the knowingly f2 preter of defending these Scottsboro victims of lynch justice was final] forced to drop their pretense. It must now be clear to everyone that the N.A.AS.P. entered the case to defend the lynchers and not the intended vic of the lynching. y defended the court sentenced them not defend the victims. They hired and pported Roddy, the r who betrayed the nine Negro boys in the t and did not defend the victims of Roddy’s treacher. The N.A.A.C.P. protested ag: t calling the prosecution and trial of three inn boys an out e, but re- fused to defend the victims of this outrage. They were concerned with maintaining the co the American messes in the courts that perpetrate legal lynchings like that against the nine Scottsboro boys, but they were not concerned in sav these intended victims from the outrage of the court. Our concern is the defense of the victit It is to smash through the frame-work of bourgeois legal- ity with a tremendous outpouring, a proietarian pro- test and demonstration. Such actions will prevent the Southern lynch bosses from cai ing through their plans unnoticed by the American working cl: and the Negro masses. Confidence in the courts cannot bring justice. Only confidence in the might and power of the organized efforts of the American working class is the method of obtaining the freedom of these innocent boys The Central Commitice upon the Negro mass- es and the American working cless to unite in ef- fective demonstrations for the unconditicnal and im- mediate release of the nine Scottsboro victims of Southern lyneh tic DEMAND fEDIATE AND UNCONDI- TIONAL RELEASE OF THE NINE BOYS! SMASH THE LYNCH TERROR AGAINST THE NEGRO MASSES! DEMONSTRATE FOR THE RELEASE OF VICTIMS OF AMERICAN LYNCH ORPHAN JONES, LDE HOLLINS, BUILD A MIGHTY MASS D MENT OF NEGRO AND WHITE GIVE PROTECTION TO DEFENSELES: 'S NE- GROES! ENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U. S. A. THE DEMOCRACY— Hearing on Scottsboro Appeal Opens Tomorrow Imperialist Lackeys In Vicious Attacks; Work- ers Must Wire Demands for Release of Boys By PAUL PETERS. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 19.—On the eve of the Su- done about it. It wouldn’t do to haye the whole frame-work of Negro slavery and legal lynching laid open in the south. Scottsboro made the first move. Two men named P. W. Campbell and J. K. Thompson decided to take a trip to Chattanooga. Now, P. W. Campbell is editor of the Jackson Count; boro, ‘the newsnaper which for lynch of the Negro boys; which ran lurid and utterly false accounts of evidence never given at the “trial.” Sentinel, published in Scotis- | bellowed | M | | Enthusi Workers of Whole Country M: MINERS ACT TO SPREAD STRIKE THROUGH WHOLE SOUTHERN COAL FIELD usiasm for N. M. _U. Grips All Miners; 70- Year Old Miner’s Wife Cails for Greater Sacrifices to Win Strike Get Behind Seroic Struggle of Kentucky-Tennessee Miners With Quick Response to Relief Call 2 fainted twice and fs badly in need of medical care. Charles Peters, arrested by Harlan gun thugs, is out on $2,000 bail. Delegations of miners are going out from Bell County to Hazard, » to Alabama and Virginia to arranze for the “Spread the Strike” conference which will take place on Jan. 24. The Central Strike Com- mittee is electing a large committee to work right in Harlan and Bell Counties to get delegates from unstruck mines to the conference. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 19. — Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, leaders of the Ke sntucky strike who were kidn rapped in Tennessee by armed coal operators’ gun thugs last Friday, taken for a ride, and beaten with six foot poles into un- consciousness, returned to Knoxville early this morning. Only the fact that Weber had smuggled a telephone call into the Knoxville office of the Kentueky-Tennessce miners’ relief committee of the Workers International Relief, before they were taken over the state line into Kentucky, saved them {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “Red Scare” Fails /TRY CRUSH KY. Split Mass Support STRIKE WITH of 9 Strike Leaders INJUNCTION Miners Refuse To Be Tell Starved Miners to Hoodwinked | Pity Operators PINEVILLE, Ky.—“If a} LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 19. man is hungry he’s a Red, and | —Hearing the request of the if he tells anybody, that’s crim-| Kentucky coal operators for a inal syndicalism,” is the way | federal injunction in an effort one gaunt striker explained it| to smash the coal mine strike, to the crowd around the court house | | Judge Cochrane of the Federal Dist- while inside a coal operators’ court | rict Court told the miners not to was trying to railro-d nine for crim-| mind their starvation but to consider inal syndicalism. the “poor suffering mine operators” preme Court hearing of the Scottsboro case, it is generally con- ceded, even here in the South, that the eight Negro boys rail- roaded to death sentences in Alabama are innocent of assault- ing two white girls bumming a freight train in overalls. The Scottsboro prosecutors, Chattanooga police, and Stephen Roddy, N. A. A. C. P, lawyer in Chat- the #-— ——— ——__________ tanooga, put their heads together | and dceided something had to be! J. K. Thompson is assistant prose- cutor of Jacksc In Chattanooga, a own statement field cord, ° the: Hackett, ording to their the court re- “who placed at our disposal {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Weinstone to Speak at Lenin Memorial Mass Meeting Tomorrow a t the Coliseum NEW YORK.—William W. Wein- stone of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, will be the principal speaker at. the Lenin Me- morial meeting called by the New Mr. Fish, Woll, Doak and com- | pany, at the dictates of the Hoover hunger government, are proceeding with their program, against the un- employed and employed masess, with of visited Chief Detective | The prosecutor, the operators, the | judge and all the sheriff's gang are | ing their best to whip up some kind of hysteria against the strike | leaders as Communists, “déstroyers of homes, those who throw Christ in | the gutter, associates of Negrees,”| and so on and so on. But it doesn’t have much effect and Prosecutor Smith and Judge Van Beber are worried about next election. Their associate Reed Patterson, coun- sel for the Bell County Coay Oper- ators’ association is running around listening to the political reverbrations | and looking sicker every day. before insisting on a living wage. The injunction is being taken out by the Straight Creek Coal Coy through Henry Ford’s attorney Cleon K. Ca!vert, and R. Pat- terson, leading lawyer for the coal overators who also played the fore- mest role in the Pineville Court in ordering the strike leaders held i jail. The injunction is directed against 102 of the strike leaders. Allan Taub as attorney for the strikers, and one of the defendants |in the injunction suit, pointed out that this was an attempt to break the preseni strike and smash the to the Lenin Memorial meeting. Pre-| After the hearing Prosecutor Smith} National Miners Union. He asked pare for Feb, 4, the National Day of | began to invite well known miners! ihe court to deny the injunction Struggle for Unemployment Insur-| to his office to talk politics. They|yhich meant crushing, also, of the ance! Demonstrate for defense of | told him frankly he would have to) vorkers International Relief, in an the Soviet Union! York District of the Communist Party on Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Bronx Coliseum, E. 177th St. ‘This memorial meeting will be one of the most important days of mighty mass demonstration for defense of the Soviet Union from the growing danger of imperialist war. Official Washington dispatches already state that the Japanese {imperialists will attack the Soviet, Union shortly. hunger dole. the imperialist preparations to smash the leader every struggle against wage-cuts, for | Fight for the rele unemployment insurance and against | boro boys! capitalism and imperialist war, the | crimination of the Negvo Communist Party. and the house of Morgan decide to | completely cut off city tions for relief and stop even the | against Tammeny All this is part of the war plan of | es government. ers from your shop and un of the Scoits- 4 lynching and dis- masses! air Rally et the Bron: cay night-—give your answer to the Tammany-Morgan hunger conspiracy the million unemployed workers of New York! appropria- | Rally! Red Builders, help get subs on! | Coliseum Thurs- | | tCeNTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | SEND AMBULANCE SOVIET ARMENIA CLEVELAN Ohio.—The land Daughters of Armenia made a c jon and cont fcur am- | bulance outfits to Soviet Armenia. | Plans are being erranged to give more hel> during this year. TO Cleve- have Bring the work- | go to hell for votes, nobody on earth| esort to starve the miners back te | work. “I believe in the right of the la- borer to receive wages,” said Judge Cochrane, “but,” he added, “I know U in this depression the millionaires end big bankers and financiers are suffering more than any one else.” “Dying of starvation or of flu) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Workers! 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